My question isn't whether you would feel obligated to take the advice of someone with direct experience or expertise -- of course you would take that input seriously and consider it -- but from someone without either, with whom you disagreed. And whether you should expect to be pressured by others into taking that advice over your own experienced and well-researched judgment.
I wouldn't feel comfortable seeing someone like I've described telling you that how you are raising your child is wrong and I would never join a chorus of people telling you that you should disregard everything you know about your child and education and CODAs and deafness simply because this person has had a friend who raised a CODA.
